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Stories of Your Life and Others
With his masterful first collection, multiple-award-winning author Ted Chiang deftly blends human emotion and scientific rationalism in eight remarkably diverse stories, all told in his trademark precise and evocative prose....
This Is Where I Leave You
Poor Judd Foxman returns home early to find his wife in bed with his boss - in the act. He now faces the twin threats of both divorce and unemployment....
The Signature of All Things
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LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE From the moment Alma Whittaker steps into the world, everything about life intrigues her. Instilled with...
Portuguese Irregular Verbs
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Welcome to the insane and rarified world of Professor Dr. Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld of the Institute of Romance Philology. Von Igelfeld is engaged in a never-ending quest to win the...
The Amateur Marriage: A Novel
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From the inimitable Anne Tyler, a rich and compelling novel about a mismatched marriage--and its consequences, spanning three generations. They seemed like the perfect couple--young, good-looking, made for each other....
Macaulay Station
Frank Munro has had change thrust upon him. So he's changing. He's trying. An award winning journalist, now put out to pasture, Frank is looking to renew his purpose, renew...
Only If You Dare: 13 Stories of Darkness and Doom
Thirteen chilling short stories to keep you up at night--but only if you dare. Thirteen chilling short stories to keep you up at night--but only if you dare. You never...
Nexus
Nexus , the last book of Henry Miller's epic trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion , is widely considered to be one of the landmarks of American fiction. In it, Miller vividly...
The Soldier's Lady: A Novel
Presents the tragic romance of Emma and a wounded buffalo soldier. When the two fall in love, it poses problems for William McSimmons' political career. Can their love keep them...
West Coast
One man's journey - from fatherless, poverty-stricken child growing up in a Scottish fishing village in the 70s, through teenage angst, falling in love, going to London, living in squats,...
Wives Of The East Wind
Spanning four decades of Chinese history, Wives of the East Wind is an epic tale of friendships, love, and idealism betrayed. Two couples - Wenya and Zhiying, Zhenzhen and Lao...
Songs Without Words
Liz and Sarabeth have been friends forever, childhood neighbours bound together in adolescence by a devastating event, the suicide of Sarabeth's mother when the girls were just sixteen. In the...
The Song Reader
Mary Beth and her younger sister Leeann are trying to support themselves in their small Southern hometown. So, to make ends meet, alongside her job at the diner Mary Beth...
The Glass House: Menzies Mental Health Novel 1
'A masterfully told, character-driven novel that will have you laughing and crying in equal measures' THE AUSTRALIAN 'A deeply empathetic, humanising portrait of a mental health facility, and the souls...
Thieves
Based on the true story of the theft of Katherine Mansfield's letters. the life of the New Zealand author Katherine Mansfield poses the central question of this exciting new novel...
The Burnished Sun: The prize-winning story collection
This stunning story collection includes two prize-winning novellas along with an impressive range of historical and contemporary stories, all written by characters who yearn to belong and find acceptance. From...
The Lives of Others
***Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014** * b>***Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2014*** Ma, I feel exhausted with consuming, with taking and grabbing and using. I am so...
Convergence on the 42nd Parallel
TWO PEOPLE. TWO GLOBAL SUPERPOWERS. ONE DATE WITH DESTINY. ... set them on a collision course in a rapidly converging story, mix-in a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier on a week-long...
White Clouds Blue Rain
Told through a series triptychs-each with a poem, a work of essayistic prose and a photographic image-White Clouds Blue Rain captures discrete moments of life with precise yet unpredictable detail....
Triple Platinum
FEVER PITCH, winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award, stands as the definitive statement on the obsessive nature of football fandom. 'His triumph is that, without...
Happiest Days
Jack Sheffield returns to Ragley-on-the-Forest for his tenth action-packed year as village headmaster. It's 1986 and Jack Sheffield returns to Ragley village school for his tenth rollercoaster year as headteacher....
School's Out!
Jack Sheffield delights with the ups and downs of village life in another year at Ragley-on-the-Forest school As the new school year begins, Jack Sheffield prepares for an even more...
Care of Wooden Floors
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A witty debut novel about a housesitting gig gone terribly, hilariously wrong. A British copywriter stays for a week at his composer friend Oskar's elegant, ultramodern apartment in a glum...
Neverwhere
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"Neil Gaiman is undoubtedly one of the modern masters of fantasy writing....For those who have not read Neverwhere , the new edition is the one to read, and is a...
A Search For The King
Kidnapped and held to ransom by Duke Leopold of Austria after the Third Crusade, Richard the Lion Heart, it is said, was found by his faithful troubadour Blondel de Neel....
Closely Observed Trains
For gauche young apprentice Milos Hrma, life at the small but strategic railway station in Bohemia in 1945 is full of complex preoccupations. There is the exacting business of dispatching...
Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons: A Novel
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"A lively story as delectable as a five-pound box of chocolates . . . a thoroughly engaging chronicle of friendship and the substantive place it holds in women's lives."-Anne D....
Four Play
Despite her broken heart, when Dilly Gently joins Magnus Olensen's new band, the chemistry between them is explosive. Both impossibly romantic dizzy blondes with the souls of poets, they could...
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The story of Octave, one of the new Masters of the Universe. Octave seems to have everything going for him: a good mind, a great job in advertising, a lavish...
The Bad Mother's Handbook
The story of three generations of women - grandmother, mother and daughter - narrated from their separate perspectives, and showing the complex relationships that exist between them
The Sandcastle Girls
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant , here is a sweeping historical love story that probes the depths of love, family, and secrets amid the...
Wild Houses
It's the biggest weekend of the year and everything is about to change - the thrilling, riotous debut novel from the Observer Best New Novelist. As Ballina prepares for its...
Mercy Among the Children
Joint winner (with Michael Ondaajte's Anil's Ghost) of the Giller Prize, Mercy Among the Children is reckoned by many to be the finest Canadian novel of 2000. The novel tells...
Disobedience
Winner of the Orange Prize for New Writers 2006, this is an insightful and witty novel on the search for love, tolerance and faith. Ronit has left London and transformed...
A Clockwork Orange
'What we were after ...was lashings of ultra-violence'. In Anthony Burgess' infamous nightmare vision of youth culture in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy...
Caught In A Story
An anthology of 20 contemporary fairy tales which provide a subversive, sidelong glance at ourselves and the world. The authors include A.S. Byatt, Ben Okri, Margaret Atwood, Jorge Luis Borges,...
Some Rain Must Fall: My Struggle Book 5
An exhilarating story of ambition, joy and failure in early manhood from the international phenomenon, Karl Ove Knausgaard An exhilarating story of ambition, joy and failure in early manhood from...
The Lives of Others
An epic saga telling the story of a Bengali family in Calcutta - exploring a family that is decaying as the society around it fractures, and one young man who...
Morgan's Passing
A striking and joyous new look for the novels of one of the greatest storytellers of our time Read Pulitzer Prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Anne Tyler's funny and uplifting...
By Night in Chile
This highly imaginative novella is a masterpiece of its type and one of the finest early works by legendary Chilean writer, Roberto Bolano. During the course of a single night,...
The Bird Woman
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The much anticipated second novel from prize-winning Irish poet and novelist, Kerry Hardie. 'The Bird Woman' is a moving account of two marriages, a gift that feels like a curse,...
No Bones
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2002 A stunning debut novel about a little girl growing up in Belfast, from the author of the Man Booker Prize winning novel,...
Stone Arabia
Denise and Nik grew up in the '70s LA music scene. Nik - handsome and gifted, with a knack for songwriting - was a star on the rise. Denise, his...
Love and the Platypus
Which is the greater mystery- the breeding habits of the platypus or the workings of the human heart? In 1883 young British naturalist William Caldwell arrives in Australia with a...